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At its meeting on October 6, 1983, the Bonn City Council adopted the following statutes on the basis of § 4 of the Municipal Code for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in the version published on October 1, 1979 (GV. NW. p. 594/SGV. NW. 2023) and §§ 59 ff. of the Fiscal Code (AO 1977) of March 16, 1979 (BGBl. I p. 613), last amended by the law of December 22, 1981 (BGBl. I p. 1523):
§ 1: Purpose
(1) The Kunstmuseum Bonn, based in Bonn, pursues exclusively and directly charitable purposes within the meaning of the section "Tax-privileged purposes" of the German Tax Code.
(2) The purpose of the Kunstmuseum Bonn is to cultivate the fine arts and to contribute to the dissemination of the understanding of art.
(3) The statutory purpose is realized in particular through the maintenance and updating of the collections, which are to be made accessible to the public, as well as the organization of art exhibitions.
§ 2: Selflessness
The Kunstmuseum Bonn is a non-profit organization; it does not primarily pursue its own economic purposes.
§ 3: Earmarking of funds
(1) Funds of the Kunstmuseum Bonn may only be used for the purposes set out in the statutes. The City of Bonn shall not receive any donations from the funds of the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
(2) If the Kunstmuseum Bonn is dissolved or abolished or if its tax-privileged purpose ceases to exist, the City of Bonn shall initially receive back no more than its paid-in capital shares and the fair market value of its contributions in kind. The remaining assets shall also revert to the City of Bonn; they shall be used directly and exclusively for tax-privileged purposes within the meaning of the German Fiscal Code.
§ 4: Exclusion of favoritism
No person may benefit from expenses that are alien to the purpose of the Kunstmuseum Bonn or from disproportionately high remuneration.
§ 5: Organization and legal form
(1) The Kunstmuseum Bonn is affiliated with the Kurfürstliches Gärtnerhaus.
(2) As a public institution without legal capacity, the Kunstmuseum Bonn is an institute within the Department of Culture.
§ 6: Use of the Kunstmuseum Bonn
Anyone is permitted to use the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Details of use are regulated by visitor regulations.
§ 7: Entry into force
Sections 1 to 4 shall enter into force retroactively as of January 1, 1977, and the remaining provisions shall enter into force on the day following the public announcement of these Articles of Incorporation. - - - The above statutes are hereby made public.
It is pointed out that a violation of procedural and formal regulations of the Municipal Code for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (GO NW) in the creation of these bylaws can no longer be asserted after the expiry of one year from the date of this announcement, unless
a prescribed approval is missing,
these statutes have not been duly published,
the Chief Town Clerk has previously objected to the resolution on the statutes or
the formal or procedural defect has been notified to the city in advance, stating the violated legal provision and the fact that reveals the defect.
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